...David Rosner © October 1982, by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1982 REPORTS Tempest in a Test Tube: Medical History and the Historian David Rosner Few historians pay much attention...

...David Suisman In 1964, the US government conducted an experiment in which it bombarded Oklahoma City with eight sonic booms a day, every day, for six months, in order to test community reaction. The experiment was part of a large-scale program to build a supersonic transport (SST), an aircraft...

... of Kuwait articulated these anxieties in the context of waiting—waiting to be infected, waiting for a national outbreak, waiting in quarantine, and, for noncitizens who tested positive for HIV, waiting to be deported. By the mid-1990s, this process of anticipating and taking concrete legal measures...

...R. J. Lambrose Copyright © 1998 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 1998 THE ABUSABLE PAST R. J. Lambrose PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORIES The recent controversy over nuclear testing by India and Pakistan re- minded us...

... such hellish weapons. He noted presciently in his diary on 25 July 1945, after being fully briefed on the results of the Trinity test, that the bomb ”may be the fire destruction prophesied in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark.”4Leading atomic scientists issued warnings...

... years, what little critical pedagogy existed in public schools has collapsed under the growing fetish of standardized testing presumably designed to measure growth and academic achieve- ment. On the surface, the name and the goals of NCLB appear noble, perhaps even radical. But in practice...

... is the consistency with which critics took issue with one specific aberration: the apparently inexplicable fact that in a play about US nuclear testing, the female characters all entered the stage wearing swimsuits. Walter Kerr, for example, jokes that Buck’s conception of a scientist is “a man who surrounds himself...

.... The clinical director at the ICE facility did not allow Arellano to get lab work or medication for an entire month. 2 This neglect occurred because of the facility’s medical regulations, which prohibited blood tests for thirty days. Arellano’s health noticeably waned during her incarceration. She became...

... across the country, let us not forget the Pentagon records released last May that revealed the U.S. Department of Defense had sprayed live nerve and biological agents on ships and sailors during the 1960s as part of an effort to test the navy’s vulnerability...

... The State of World History Standards 2006, for example, assigns the state of Cali- fornia an A grade, stating that “the state’s social studies standards, which include its world history requirements, run some 200 pages long.” States with no history of issuing statewide assessment tests like Vermont...

... school graduates. Those already ex- posed to radical ideas found themselves in a near perfect environ- ment for refining and confinming ideological commitments, spreading their philosophy, and testing theories and tactics. Others, fresh from farms or small towns, were transformed...

... to establish the utility of primates for in- terpreting the place of human beings in scientifically managed cor- porate capitalism-called nature. His investigations in mental and sex- ual psychobiology included designing tests for all aspects of mental functions in organisms ranging from daphnia...

...- choice test, and the respondents’ average score was just 53 percent. The ACTA survey received tremendous attention upon its release. The New York Times said that it showed that “the nation is in desperate need of summer school,” and the executive director...

..., a specially equipped Minuteman missile intercepted and destroyed a test enemy missile launched by the American military from the South Pacifi c. The test occurred over Southern California, one of the most densely populated and most media-savvy areas of the United States...

..., but the contributors all insist that colonialism can only be understood in particular historical contexts. The editors, Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda, define their proj- ect as testing the relevance of theoretical models developed in relation to the British Empire for other European colonialisms...

... atomic tests in remote parts of Australia, for instance, led to radical reassessments of both the context and impact of these experiments on indigenous and non-indigenous people. These emerged from the establishment of a Royal Commission, the highest level public inquiry that can be held...

... Yet the valorization of the maleness or femaleness of post-transition trans- sexuals hinged in part on understandings of their productive capacity. Value was ascribed to the actual contribution of one’s labor power to the economy. The eco- nomic element of the “real-life test” illustrates...

... graduate students to attend their classes on pain of failure. What, you may rightly wonder, is libelous about this passage? Could Bercuson con- test in court whether or not his tail was theoretically stunted? Actually stunted? Between his legs? No, the issue appears...

...-would rather spend money on national testing than on sub- stantive programs or teachers’ salaries. Periodic cries of alarm about the lack of preparation of students-the inability of the United States to compete with Germany in the heyday of it5 in- dusbial development, with the Soviet Union...

... administration was deter- mined to use the Gulf War as a test of its military and technological 138/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW prestige. Consider the first days of the war: simultaneous claims of devastating carpet-bombing and “surgical strikes,” $500 million a day in ammunition alone, smug comparisons...